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"Published in cooperation with Kali for Women, India"--Title page verso.

Thoroughly revised and updated papers originally presented at the Seminar on "Women, Ecology and Health", Bangalore, India, July 17-22, 1991.

Women, ecology and health / Vandana Shiva

After the forest : AIDS as ecological collapse in Thailand / Ann Danaiya Usher

Killing legally with toxic waste : women and the environment in the United States / Penny Newman

Environmental degradation and subversion of health / Mira Shiva

Using technology, choosing sex : the campaign against sex determination and the question of choice / Forum Against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-selection

Legal rights

and wrongs : internationalising Bhopal / Indira Jaising and C. Sathyamala

Green earth, women's power, human liberation : women in peasant movements in India / Gail Omvedt

Filipino peasant women in defence of life / Loreta B. Ayupan and Teresita G. Oliveros

Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka : its ecological and political consequences / Rita Sebastian

The seed and the earth : biotechnology and the colonisation of regeneration / Vandana Shiva

The re-greening of the planet / Rosalie Bertell

Ecological economics / Marilyn Waring.

Economic development > Environmental aspects.

Environmental health > Congresses.

Environmental protection > Congresses.

Women and the environment > Congresses.

Women in conservation of natural resources > Congresses.

Women in development > Environmental aspects > Congresses.

Environmental Health

Women

Ecology